The Goddess Eingana

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Eingana, ----.
ANG*N*,
[to Whom the twentieth day of June, day 171, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Australia. Aborigine, (tribe and mada unknown).
Description: Primordial snake; Huge Mother Goddess of birth and death; Maker of all water, land and animals; She Who yet lives in the ocean, rising occasionally to make more life; She Who holds a sinew of life attached to each of Her creatures, when She lets it go, that life stops; She Who originally gave birth to living beings from Her mouth; She Who has an ambisexual quality.
To Whom Sacred: kangeroo; snake.
Male Associates: Having swallowed those beings She gave birth to through Her mouth She became pregnant again but could not bring them forth. The god Barraiya, ----, pierced Her, near Her anus with his spear, allowing birth to take place as it does today for all creatures.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Perhaps a variant: Djeigung, below.
Perhaps to be identified with the great Rainbow Snake Julunggul, below.
{One of the alternate names for Julunggul is Ungar, a name which seems to me similar enough to Eingana, that it might be a dialect variant, if not a transcription variant.}

Source: Monaghan BGH 93.

Djeigung, ----.
DYIG1Ñ
Geography/Culture: Australia. Aborigine, Galbu mada
Description: The female wongar snake of the Galbu mada.
To Whom Sacred: the blue tongue lizard.
Male Associate: Her companion is Gungalung, ----, the blue tongue lizard.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Also called Gundaru, below.

Source: Groger-Wurm AABP 44.

Julunggul, ----..
DYWLWNGWL
Geography/Culture: Australia. Arnhem Land, (tribe unknown)
Description: Ambisexual Creative-being; Great Shehe python Whose voice is the thunder, Whose forked tongue is the lightning and Whose hisses cause the rain to fall; Rainbow snake; Guardian of the Muruwul sacred waterhole; Head-being of the all the animals; Shehe Who is associated with the fluctuations of the seasons.
To Whom Sacred: the iridescence of pearl shells; the glitter of quartz crystals; the phosphorescence of the sea at night; sunlight trapped in water droplets above waterfalls; the rainbow (which is Eris body); the Uwar log drum (Eris sacred representation and a name by which Shehe is also known, its sound is Eris voice).

Titles/Variants, etc:

Also known as Babi-Jindi, Big-Snake.
Perhaps Eingana is to be identified with Erim.
Also known as Galeru.
Also known as Gidjin.
Also known as Goingaru.
Also known as Gundaru, see also ---- above.
In the south-east Shehe is known as Karia.
Also known as Langal.
Also known as Moiid.
Also known as Muit, (Moiid and Muit may be variant transcriptions of the same name -- this a possibility with several Also known as names).
In the south-east Shehe is also known as Mindi.
In Queensland shehe is known as Taipan.
Also known as Ungur, {Eingana may be a variant of this form}.
In Her manifest form of the log drum She is Uwar.
Also known as Wididj, Snake.
Also known as Wirtit, Snake.
Also know as Witik, Snake.
Also known as Wonambi.
Also known as Wonungur.
Also known as Worombi.
Also known as Wollunqua.
In Queensland She is known as Yero.
Also known as Yurlunggur.

Source:Groger-Wurm AABP 33, 35, 39, 44; Poignant OM 124.

{there is more information in both Groger-Wurm AABP and Poignant OM}.

worked on: June, July 1990; August 1991; June 1995
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